This first one is a pretty remarkable video of a tornado closing in on a camera sitting atop some building in Manhattan, Kansas. Manhattan is home to KSU and the campus took a lot of damage from this tornado. This happened on 11 June and this was from channel 49 a station in Topeka. The meteorologists aren’t too sure of where it is or how big it is because it’s so dark. That is the danger of a twister at night. It’s not everyday you get to see (sort of) a tornado come into town. Notice how much darker it gets from around 6:10 on.
In my personal opinion I think it was a rain-wrapped* tornado, and I’m surprised that the idea of a rain-wrapped tornado did NOT come up between the observing meteorologists.
Have you ever seen a tornado take a break and chill out in one spot?
Now you have!
And one more, I love watching tornado videos…several angles of a bank’s encounter with a tornado.
Pretty cool huh? Well, I liked it.
*Rain-wrapped: A rain-wrapped tornado is a tornado that is not clearly visible because the heavy rain falling around the tornado is hiding it. This makes it appear (especially during the day) that it’s just heavily raining and hailing. It also makes the tornado harder to find and that much more of a threat.
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